another tourbillion for venezuela while both russian and u.s. resolutions to resolve the country's crisis fail at the u.n. security council washington's economic pressure prompt practiced the transfer of the european h.q. of its main oil firm to moscow. france sees a sixteenth weekend of yellow vest movement on the rest with police resorting to tear gas and water cannon against protesters. also this hour the u.s. and north korean leaders hold their second summit but failed to reach

a deal on denuclearization accusing each other of unreasonable demands. this is the weekly bringing you the last week's biggest headlines from all of us here r t h q in moscow welcome to the program. the border between venezuela and colombia witnessed further violence this week as tensions over american aid deliveries intensified and as one president nicolas maduro has blocked the shipments from entering claiming they could be carrying weapons international efforts to end the crisis have stalled with the u.n. security council rejecting draft resolutions from both russia and the u.s. . by voting against this resolution some members of this council continue to shield woodrow and his cronies and prolong the suffering of the venezuelan people the time for a peaceful transition to democracy is now they're going to use them with us finally

we have reached the culmination of the american workers treated double standards show over venezuela washington and london have both again robbed an entire nation of billions of dollars in the same time or pushing them to accept a pittance due to regime change as they say you first of all create great humanitarian problems and then you call upon the whole world to solve them we look forward to genuinely free and fair elections and to a government that reflects the will and aspirations of the venezuelan people. you have to do is vote is an excellent example of one of the veto rule is necessary for protecting the peace and people's right to determine their future both the russian and the u.s. resolutions didn't pass the voting in the un security council the russian one got less votes in favor that against four in favor and seven against the us draft was vetoed by russia and china the russian ambassador said that if the u.s. resolution had passed it would be the first case in history that the united nations

security council to pull is the legitimate leader and imposed another one to a sovereign country the venezuelan representatives spoke as well calling to stop interfering into the matters of his country the power to be this will has to do with having a swell on slaughtering at the end of an assault on people they behave like colonial east they are planning a clandestine operation against it a sort of right out of the same kind of took it about what he thought in their force at the same time they are just feeding out of money you see something outrageous indeed so the diplomatic community in the crossroads again the u.n. as the members who spoke after the voting called it to all of their colleagues to put their differences aside to resolve the venezuelan crisis reporting in new york treated each other as r.t. . meanwhile hundreds of activists have rallied in the spanish capital madrid in support of president maduro demonstrators waved hands often as well banners and denounce what they see as an attempt by the u.s. to intervene in another country's internal affairs offered desires who visited ben

as well as a un repertory in two thousand and seventeen believes washington is likely to escalate the situation. quite clear to me that the united states is waging war on international law now that trump does that does not surprise me question is what will the. international crises in pristine be for the united states will the united states take the risk of a flagrant aggression against venezuela there is a danger of violence it should be the function of the united nations to prevent that. but there are says washington has its sights firmly set on bet as well as oil reserves the world's largest u.s. sanctions have already blocked seven billion dollars worth of state own assets and in a proactive move venezuela ordered the state oil companies european h.q.

to relocate to moscow vice president del c. rodriguez told us more about the decision. it all with in fact the americans are pursuing a predatory policy appropriating venezuela's assets and therefore violating the legitimate interests of our country they violated all existing international investment rules aswell europe were venezuela's accounts were frozen we have already begun to take specific legal steps we hired lawyers to protect our interests primarily with regard to our gold which is now illegally withheld by the bank of england we also began to take measures for been israel's legal protection we're talking about the theft of the israel and assets which was organized by the united states and venezuela has the right to protect its. interests asked for the transfer of the p.d. v.s.e. office from europe to moscow this is connected with the expansion of the corporation of a russian company in the field of energy and the feel of oil and gas together with the european office of p d b s a other branches of the company will also move to

moscow. the u.s. has also cancelled the visas of forty nine influential venezuelans aligned with president maduro it says anyone who steals from the bene's well and people or undermines democracy is not welcome francisco to me because the head of latin american studies at london's middlesex university believes the u.s. is doing everything in its power to achieve its goal and that as well are people in venezuela particularly the million. dollars drum the pressure from the united states in particular almost exclusively on the military. three years again and again through those who are shown. through may you name it got those words were going on be only scenes and so far they go almost nothing. raises the specter or something. which can be organized irregular forces and trained and organized but the united states and

mr abrams exactly. is organized so logistic concern therefore that confirms not only won't always. but the most it is going to score something much more dramatic. for the sixteenth weekend straight yellow vests marchers were held in cities across france on saturday clashes erupted at some of the demonstrations with police deploying tear gas and water cannon.

forty thousand people were said to have taken part in marches nationwide four thousand of them in paris alone on friday president again appealed for calm urging people to refrain from the kind of violence seen in previous weeks police made a number of arrests on saturday while the l of us began as a grassroots rally over fuel taxes it's since broadened into wider anger at the president's handling of the economy. they should at least meet one of our demands to show they are listening to us that we are not doing this for nothing fuel prices are rising and they were supposed to be frozen prices are increasing in the supermarkets to ten percent on products it's the opposite of what we want. we want them to give purchasing power back to the people lower fat on essential products the grandest the citizens initiative referendum those are the two essential demands as long as they don't give us that we won't stop. you.

getting. this that people in difficult spittle who have a hard time surviving and salaries offending and i haven't the mass which a message against police violence i have many different messages. on thursday. donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un along with their retinues and thousands of journalists descended on vietnam's capital for their bilateral summit the much hyped talks failed to produce any deal on north korea's did nuclearization and the lifting of u.s. sanctions against pyongyang was trump and kim unable to come to terms despite little headway washington and pyongyang say the dialogue will continue and doesn't appear good will gesture at the u.s. and south korea are suspending their annual joint military exercises pentagon says

it's to reduce tension and advance the nuclear station on the korean peninsula however the drills have not in fact been cancelled but rather replaced by another set of exercises are often take stock of the second term kim summit. the talks in hanoi between trump and kim were complete failure a blow out a bomb trump says the talks failed because of what he says were unreasonable demands they wanted the sanctions lifted. in their entirety and we couldn't do that but that is not how north korea remembers the meeting what we proposed wasn't the removal of all sanctions but they were partial removal we proposed to the united states articles of sanctions that impede the cereal and economy and the law of our people so with conflicting information about what actually took place at the meeting between the two leaders we've now got the u.s. state department issuing an explanation of the explanation after the talks flopped

in hanoi trying to jumped on a plane to alaska it was certainly not singing the song of peace as he praised the troops america does not see conflict but if we are forced to defend ourselves we will fight and we will win in an overwhelming fashion you are a powerful warning to the world to never strike american soil you are a warning that everybody knows about in nobody wants to play with you would think that was the utter train wreck that was the talks with pyongyang that donald trump would be cruising for a bruising when he got back to the united states however that doesn't seem to be the case the epic failure seems to been met with pretty broad approval both democrats and republicans seemed rather chipper about it it's good that the president did not get in anything was a little bit that he was proposing the north koreans walk away thinking you know they've got they've won and gradually they will see they were sanctions regime

begin to erode then they've won and frankly that would be unfortunate i was smart to expose the north korean delegation to the god of our economic prosperity that could be possible it's a good thing that he walked away rather than agreeing to something that was badly flawed democratic presidential candidate toasting gabbert seem to stand alone invoicing disappointment kim jong un has clearly stated that he is holding on to these nuclear weapons as his only deterrent against the united states coming. and waging a regime change war in north korea so well you know i'm deeply concerned about the fact that this summit yesterday ended without an agreement it's not surprising because of this policy this regime change war policy might pompei o laid out the washington consensus with rather sharp terminology america has a responsibility to protect itself by pushing back against those evil nations and those evil leaders who intend to do real harm to the world yes much like george w.

bush with his rhetoric about evil doers donald trump is not setting himself up to winning nobel peace prize any time soon but most of the political establishment that normally hates donald trump seems to think that that's a ok mop and artsy new york political experts told us the trump administration's hawkish stance elsewhere and separating north korea's trust in the white house promises. it was not no deal versus bad deal it was a missed opportunity and the real question remains whether what was it that caused president or chairman kim for that matter to stand up and walk away hour and a half early i think there's a crisis in confidence between north korea in the us you know kim knows what's going on in the world and he looks around and he sees unfortunately and depressingly the united states simply doesn't keep its word around the world trump

is going to trying to show success he and that i think was one of the considerations in the discussions in in vietnam over over north korea missiles the reality is is a trump is looking to make a deal and to show international success and to so that he can have something to come back to and to offset the turmoil the inter the political turmoil he's facing back home but if we've taken over isis in syria then the question remains what about the troops u.s. troops who are there in syria what will happen with them those are questions of remain unanswered. on tuesday india carried out an air strike on what it says was a terror camp in pakistan increasing fears of a military confrontation between the two nuclear armed neighbors.

south asian politics and security expert. believes there may be a foreign power behind the conflict. saying at the moment is the low intensity conflict on the ground and the sea is going to go on what you need to remember here is that all do all of the pakistani prime minister region the indian

kaptchuk pilot as ecclesiastes there's a lot of history at the high end that i thought about how to do with the press he's personally coming from the united states saudi arabia and united to meet its own which kind of forced pakistan to take the point you said that it took neither of these parties want to go down the path to peace and in pakistan the army has the state so that is a military establishment which is their whole walk on india we haven't lost at least in divide kids and fanti who choose craving for some kind of confrontation at foxconn which would give it to claxon on to my list in the forthcoming election. coming up a shooting range in the u.k. uses pictures of a teen i saw a bride for targeting practice sparking a public debate on that after this short break.

lost its moral compass and maybe if to put more values into the system my personal opinion is we have to string some multinational multilateral institutions now we're living in the dark cruel that it's like i'm lucy will scream having always you know and come to action there and so we need to put back to the system and we need stronger leadership and better leadership. life expectancy in america is plummeting if you look at the chart it's shocking you look at almost every other country it's kind of inching up on one side of the chart and then as an outlier is the united states this way over here it's all crashing down from the drugs from having junk food having junk culture having it's junk

politics and fake this is all fake and fake doesn't sustain life and you see it in the numbers it's clear. welcome back shooting range and the u.k. has been branded distasteful for a long pictures of a bride should be go to be used as a target the teenager earned notoriety after an interview in which she showed no remorse or regret about fleeing to join the terror group in syria one of her images used at the range covered in both holes has been widely shared online to mixed reaction. in a society where hate and violence against muslims particularly muslim women is most prevalent on the rois it's deeply concerning that people requested an image of a real person as a shooting target it's clearly wrong to use photos of people as targets in a shooting they should stop why you're so worried about a traitor they're just plain thinking with her poster her i says friend starts to

real human heads of beheaded victims like a football and she wasn't fazed remember that so me i'm a big i was born in britain but took her sister's passport and fled to syria to join eisel when she was just fifteen she now says she'd like to return to the u.k. to care for her newborn baby but britain's move to revoke her citizenship here's why the shooting range said it was using beacons image. the target to provide some fantastic reactions and conversations and allow people to have some lighthearted fun and bring out the inner child in us all the targets we provide do not necessarily always reflect our personal opinions after watching footage of big i'm being interviewed and the lack of remorse and empathy she shows we chose to go ahead and run the targets. so is it appropriate to use an image in this way we put the issue up for debate. the issue is how it's going to actually impact on muslims in this country and muslim women in particular and the fact that we need to

recognize whether we like it or not because she is a muslim woman she is going to inevitably represent something that the people who are going to range people are saying this is something that is going to be targeting muslim women in the second what is more what is more offensive to muslim women the fact that should be pagans picture was i think shooting bags almost nobody is going to go to all the fact that somebody is appearing on international television to say that should mean begum is a vet present state of muslim women in britain that is not what i said that is a caricature. whatever it is precisely what you said that night if you have knowledge i need to actually think about why do you allow me to finish what you allow me to finish and talking about playing that is being made is that a racist environment this is a racist environment which you are a part of which is encouraging the targeting of muslim women she is a terrorist and their lord biding citizens and frankly you should take that back

you should apologize to muslim women in this country for suggesting that she is like them this is a process of desensitization of children from a very early age and this is problematic because it is saying that it's ok to shoot and kill women in her job because that's exactly what is being suggested in this to call it harmless fun i think it's important that we recover the child advocates on the t.v. channels that we should take military action to get the child by its u.k. who after all is an innocent victim she can take a hike i don't care about. the release idea if she also says it's not true and b. so fed was there to reason that there. is a terrorist there's an irish cricket. behaved in a way that would be taken away but for a white person that would not be an option that their citizenship would be taken away he said on other than that a lot of recognize that there's a structural racism that exists through everything that you are actually saying the

sense of what you would define i think should mean i would say of the you all bring her back to defend the grain over and try her and that's the issue there is an environment of hate that exists i think what we have to think first of all who are the real victims here should be jim he's a terrorist she supported a brutal terrorist regime the disgraceful idea in the media that we should be seeing her as the vic said i think it's sad and pathetic that it would not be the role of the british state to tell british people what they can and can't do just cause one or two people are offended by it if we lived our lives bunning everything that that one person found offensive nothing would exist in the world and thank god i live in a country where we're never going to do that. dollar terms former lawyer michael cohen failed to provide any evidence of collusion with russia when he testified before congress on wednesday members of congress accused him of being a liar he had already pled guilty

a previously lying to congress about trump's opposing connections to moscow but cohen pulled no punches when talking about his ex boss. today i am here to tell the truth about. he is a racist. is a con man. and he is a cheat mr trump knew of and directed the trump moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it and i have never asked for nor would i accept hard from president trump ladies and gentlemen how on earth is this witness credible he's a fake witness its presence here is a travesty and you have a history of lying over and over and over again he said we were in charge of the truth i don't believe that michael coleman is capable of telling the truth he lied to congress through false statements in a written statement he lied to congress through his testimony he did campbell to fight his false statements by releasing him refuting his lies to the public with.

cohen was a term confidant for more than a decade after his moment in the spotlight he will begin a three year prison sentence in the spring for tax and bank fraud as well as for lying to congress we discussed his testimony with former us republican congressman michael patrick flanagan. as we call it in the united states when election season comes here we call it the silly season and in the silly season silly things happen this is a little early. something that you'd see in the silly season cohen is willing to use the word racist and criminal a liar and anyone who's willing to speak in that absolute in that strongest terms in washington will always have an audience on one side or the other there was just an angry man who wanted to be chief of staff who didn't get to be chief of staff who was furious he could make a ton of money off the trump name after trump was elected president has decided

after all that he needs to get even in a vicious new york stupid sort of way and so he's going to come to congress and lie some more he's been this. barred for lying that the state of new york despite of the polled his law license because he's a liar a man who took their promise who took that oath and then took another oath in front of congress and has lied constantly can't be trusted ever to tell the truth even if he is telling the truth it will require cooperation substantiation and some backup and none of that was provided thanks for tuning in this hour don't forget you can always find us on all of your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports.

i. like. to look. beyond. what i see images and hear things what they're doing. i see people who are afraid not see these young men and some women in these white supremacist groups and i see the world as really scared. scared that it loses. all they have the whole or that is the color of their skin that's all they have going for themselves because they're white skinned. my son there's doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united

states is drug abuse started one after the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. certain sins for whom minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier.

hello and welcome to worlds apart adam smith the four father of modern economics the one sad death resentment is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence the latest wave of resentment that's produced brax it and don't trump is open discounted as populism or russia's plotting but isn't it and inevitably and authentically western response to the injustices and abuses of globalization while to discuss that i'm now joined by frank you're going to retire founder and chairman of harasses the global visions community mystery series good to talk to you thank you very much for the time music for having me now i know that you worked for a number of european multinationals in china you saw globalization up close and personal and you usually speak very favorably about it but i wonder if that's not their vantage point bias if you happen to observe with let's say from the american

midwest wouldn't your views be a little bit different. me currently experiencing a crisis of globalization the deep seated resentment of globalization is spoiling over old white create portion of the ruled is perceiving and self a school work station loses this recent man dispensed by the movement in france but also by the rise of donald trump and i guess most of those who voted for donald trump globalization that was us one of the things that we usually hear about globalization is that it lifted millions of people out of poverty and that is undeniable nobody argues with god but if you happen to be had of a multinational company it would have also benefited your bank account in very very generous ways whereas if you are a blue collar worker who saw his factory closed and a shopping mall opened in its place what did bad fits of globalization be just as apparent well globalization is here to stay there's no doubt about it but i think

we have to redefine globalization and maybe catalyze the benefits of globalization you put it right. the anglo-saxon model of capitalism and the globalization eastern crisis even so we have seen an economy crowe's over the last few would take it's not everybody is spending fitting from globalization we see the shrinking of the middle class in america and in europe in even so on the surf ace of economic success the middle class are shrinking and less people who can really benefit from globalization well let's talk about why that happened. clearly has benefited export oriented economies like china or germany much more and much more evenly than imports oriented economies including the united states is it really surprising that that the pushback against globalization or the current form of globalization with the region eight in america.